How do you know you have the right religion? I've been searching for a religion.?

Question

I'm in the Navy. And have deployed for a while. I thought about God. I know he exsists. I look at the creation that we have. I know that God made everything. Need Advice.

Answer 1

You need to STOP looking for religion and have a change of life style, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Don't worry about religion, counting beeds, the day you worship on, lighting candles non of that will save you.

You need the life changing experiance of Jesus Christ

God Bless you...(I am ex Navy..Go Kiska AE-35 1973-1977)

Answer 2

I was once told, "Seek and thou shall find."

Since you claim to know God exist, keep searching for Him. If you seek hard enough, you will see the evidence of His existence and how He make the world a better place.

You will know that you have taken the right path when the questions that are bugging you are answered.

My personal experience was, I used to thought that it isn't correct to say that non-believers will not have a portion of the Hereafter. This is because some people will never have the chance to hear about God. So, we can't blame them for not believing something they had never heard before. However, many people I approached for opinions tell me that if you are not a believer, you can't get a portion in the Hereafter. I just felt that this isn't right. And I kept searching until one day, I came upon this path where the people tell me that God is ever Merciful. You don't really need to be a believer to pass (given that you don't get the proper exposure). Basically, you just need to be righteous. This answered my question. And now, I am happily in this path. I won't tell you what path I took here though I posted my religion somewhere else in this website. I hope you can find out for yourself what you believe is true.

May you find Light and happiness.

Answer 3

The right religion is the one God approves. He gives His standards in the Bible. Use it to judge if they meet regs.

The most simple but effective way to do this is almost every Bible has a condordance or index in the back. It has key words and where to find them. Take a belief that a religion has and look it up. If the scroptures agree with the belief, it must be true. If it doesn't, it must be false.

Example: Immortality of the soul. Look up "soul". You will find about 2 dozen scriptures. Gen.2:7 how man came to be a living soul, what were the ingredients. Ezekiel 18:4 which says the soul that is sinning will die. Whoa! The soul dies? Then the soul can't be immortal. You go on and find other scriptures that back this up. So that belief must be false. A religion claiming that it is must also be false.

Then go on from there. By process of elimination, what is left must be true.

Answer 4

The Church Is One (Rom. 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 12:13, CCC 813–822)
Jesus established only one Church, not a collection of differing churches (Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican, and so on). The Bible says the Church is the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:23–32). Jesus can have but one spouse, and his spouse is the Catholic Church.

His Church also teaches just one set of doctrines, which must be the same as those taught by the apostles (Jude 3). This is the unity of belief to which Scripture calls us (Phil. 1:27, 2:2).

Although some Catholics dissent from officially-taught doctrines, the Church’s official teachers—the pope and the bishops united with him—have never changed any doctrine. Over the centuries, as doctrines are examined more fully, the Church comes to understand them more deeply (John 16:12–13), but it never understands them to mean the opposite of what they once meant.

The Church Is Holy (Eph. 5:25–27, Rev. 19:7–8, CCC 823–829)
By his grace Jesus makes the Church holy, just as he is holy. This doesn’t mean that each member is always holy. Jesus said there would be both good and bad members in the Church (John 6:70), and not all the members would go to heaven (Matt. 7:21–23).

But the Church itself is holy because it is the source of holiness and is the guardian of the special means of grace Jesus established, the sacraments (cf. Eph. 5:26).

The Church Is Catholic (Matt. 28:19–20, Rev. 5:9–10, CCC 830–856)
Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20).

For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28).

Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19).

The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded. The title apparently was old in Ignatius’s time, which means it probably went all the way back to the time of the apostles.

The Church Is Apostolic (Eph. 2:19–20, CCC 857–865)
The Church Jesus founded is apostolic because he appointed the apostles to be the first leaders of the Church, and their successors were to be its future leaders. The apostles were the first bishops, and, since the first century, there has been an unbroken line of Catholic bishops faithfully handing on what the apostles taught the first Christians in Scripture and oral Tradition (2 Tim. 2:2).

These beliefs include the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, the sacrificial nature of the Mass, the forgiveness of sins through a priest, baptismal regeneration, the existence of purgatory, Mary’s special role, and much more —even the doctrine of apostolic succession itself.

Early Christian writings prove the first Christians were thoroughly Catholic in belief and practice and looked to the successors of the apostles as their leaders. What these first Christians believed is still believed by the Catholic Church. No other Church can make that claim.

Answer 5

HAha well I'm whipping up an omelette myself so I'll be brief xD
I'm a Baha'i personally. Some of the main principles of the Baha'i Faith are:
# Abandonment of all forms of prejudice
# Equal rights and opportunities for women and men
# Harmony of true religion with reason and the pursuit of scientific knowledge
# Elimination of extremes of poverty and wealth
# Recognition of the common source and essential oneness of all the world's great religions
# Responsibility of each person to search independently for truth
# The eternal nature of the soul and the essential spiritual nature of life
# Universal education
# Establishment of a federated system of world government, based on principles of justice and collective security

I guess I have no real problem, myself with how "true" my religion is. All religions lead to God, and - in my belief - are from the same God, that they just differ is to be attributed to the varying requirements of the ages in which they were promulgated.
So yeah - I very well could be wrong, but it doesn't matter, because I feel close to God either, and that's what matters.

Best of luck in your search! I hope you find your truth, wherever it might be for you.

Answer 6

You need a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, not a religion. Start reading the Bible (New Testament). Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to come into your life and forgive your sins and give you eternal life. John 14:6 Look for a Bible-believing church. God has changed my life in many wonderful ways since I was saved. I'll pray for you.

Answer 7

Be very careful of religion,
religion will always have you in a do this and a don't that mode, because religion is a bunch of duties you perform.
rather I say start with God Himself and ask Him to come to you, His main requirement is faith, and by you asking Him to come into your life this is your first act of faith,
and please remain free of doctrine that men teach, rather get a bible and start with the gospell of John and first read about Jesus from a man who was there physically with Jesus and read His writings first and ponder over them, then focus on john chapter one verse 12 and 13 this will take you back to God who you are seeking He wants you to be born from above, it has nothing to do with man in any form or way, so I say again go directly to the source(God).
the people in religion don't have a clue, thats why they have a bunch of rules, they don't know what to do.
ERIC

Answer 8

There is a promise in the Bible, that if you continue to seek God, he will lead you to truth....I was raised a Jehovah's Witness (by the way, stay away from that one) After about 20 years of deprogramming, I couldn't trust what to do and I asked God to guide me, and he has in magnificent ways.
CRI (Christian Research Institute) is an awesome source. God Bless

Answer 9

If you want to be sure that you will be with God after you die then you have to put your trust in Jesus.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

I belong to a non-denominational church because the Bible is clear that there is only one church and it is the spiritual body of Christ made up of all born again believers. My Pastor is great and a lot of people from the military listen to him on the radio and the Internet. Here's the link if you want to check it out http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/enduring_truth

Answer 10

Knowing God is not a religion, it is a personal experience with his son Jesus the only way to God
Study the Bible and know that he is God